Ex-Detroit hospital nurse charged in 5 more sexual assaults of patients

• One of many new instances dates again to a 2021 assault on a facility in Livonia, the prosecutor’s workplace mentioned.
• The opposite 4 instances occurred at DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital in Detroit, in accordance with the prosecutor’s workplace.
• All the new victims had been sufferers, and Figueroa-Berrios was a nurse on the facility on the time.

A former nurse at DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital is charged with sexually assaulting 5 sufferers, crimes that be a part of related allegations in three different instances during which he has already been charged.

Wilfredo Figueroa-Berrios, 47, of Wayne, was charged with the extra counts Wednesday, Jan. 21, by Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy. He’s being held within the county jail on quite a few intercourse crime costs online prison records. Throughout a press conferenceWorthy mentioned he has been in custody since Oct. 3 and has been unable to submit bond.

The brand new costs embody 4 counts of sexual contact: misrepresentation of medical therapy; three counts of third-degree assault and 5 counts of fourth-degree assault, in accordance with a information launch from Worthy’s workplace.

Worthy mentioned the sexual assault cost — the misrepresentation of the price of medical therapy — stems from a brand new statute that went into impact in 2023, and that her workplace has not charged this offense in lots of instances because the statute went into impact.

“A physician’s workplace, or an examination room, or any hospital atmosphere ought to be the final word protected place for anybody in search of medical care. The allegations on this case are disturbing and will on no account replicate poorly on our many hardworking, caring healthcare professionals,” Worthy mentioned within the press launch.

Figueroa-Berrios’ legal professional, Daniel Lehman, advised the Free Press that the brand new allegations are “utterly false,” including that his shopper is “a caring and devoted nurse,” as evidenced by social media posts from former sufferers who’ve acknowledged this. Lehman mentioned the brand new allegations could have been made by events in search of to file civil lawsuits.

Through the press convention, Worthy mentioned, “This workplace doesn’t cost instances until we’re assured we will show them past an affordable doubt.” She mentioned there aren’t any different pending instances right now.

Worthy’s workplace mentioned the extra costs stem from quite a few incidents, together with one relationship again to Dec. 23, 2021, on the Neighborhood Outreach for Psychiatric Emergencies in Livonia, in accordance with the discharge. That is the place Figueroa-Berrios is accused of sexually assaulting a 34-year-old Westland girl when she was admitted as a affected person on the facility within the 33000 block of Schoolcraft Street, the place he was a nurse. The ability is now known as Hegira Well being Behavioral Pressing Care, according to its website.

The prosecutor’s workplace mentioned the incident was found whereas investigating one other incident, which was denied. The case was despatched by the Livonia Police Division in February 2022, the information launch mentioned, however was not found earlier as a result of there have been no data within the prosecutor’s workplace’s new case administration system.

“This was not the fault of the Livonia Police Division,” the information launch mentioned. “In September 2025, when WCPO came upon, the Livonia Police Division was requested to resubmit the warrant for evaluate. The brand new digital case administration system allowed employees to match the newly filed warrants with these already pending.”

Worthy mentioned the opposite Livonia case reviewed in 2022 was not charged as a consequence of inadequate proof. When the brand new allegations got here to gentle, she mentioned, they reviewed the case to verify of that place and got here to the identical conclusion that there was inadequate proof to convey costs.

Figueroa-Berrios is now additionally charged with the Dec. 18, 2024, sexual assault of a 22-year-old Detroit girl who was a affected person at Sinai-Grace Hospital within the 6000 block of West Outer Driver in Detroit, the place he labored as a nurse, in accordance with the discharge.

It says he additionally faces costs within the July 1, 2025, assault of a 35-year-old Detroit girl on the hospital whereas she was a affected person. That very same month, prosecutors mentioned, he sexually assaulted a 24-year-old Detroit girl on July 28 whereas she was a affected person.

A couple of month later, on August 24, 2025, he’s accused of sexually assaulting a 26-year-old Detroit girl whereas she was a affected person on the Detroit hospital.

Figueroa-Berrios was charged in three different sexual assault instances involving sufferers, one in Could and two in August 2025.

He was beforehand charged within the Aug. 12 assault of a Detroit girl, 31, who was a affected person at Sinai-Grace Hospital, in accordance with prosecutors. Seven days later, it says, he sexually assaulted a 37-year-old Detroit girl whereas she was a hospital affected person.

He’s additionally accused of sexually assaulting a Sterling Heights girl, 41, after forcing his manner right into a Porta-John exterior 47 East Adams St. in Detroit on Could 9. The 2 knew one another, however weren’t in a relationship, in accordance with A September edition from the general public prosecutor’s workplace.

The earlier three instances had been heard in Wayne County Circuit Court docket, with ultimate conferences scheduled for Jan. 30, the prosecutor’s workplace mentioned.

Figueroa-Berrios is anticipated to be arraigned Jan. 22 in Livonia’s sixteenth District Court docket on the brand new costs within the Livonia case. An arraignment date for the brand new instances in Detroit’s thirty sixth District Court docket has not but been set, in accordance with the information launch.

When Worthy’s workplace obtained the warrants, it started the method of reviewing them. It’s common for extra and vital info to be requested from police in these instances, in accordance with the discharge, which takes a while to file a report.

As a result of Figueroa-Berrios was in jail throughout the trial, the prosecutor’s workplace mentioned it was “assured that no others had been in peril as we continued to take care of the brand new instances.”

A number of civil lawsuits have additionally been filed by victims.

The District Lawyer’s Workplace is asking anybody who was sexually assaulted by Figueroa-Berrios to report it to police within the jurisdiction the place the assault occurred. Avalon Therapeutic Middle may also be contacted for help at 313-964-9701, in accordance with the discharge.

This story has been up to date with new info.

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